Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces..

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune..

The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration..

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfe….

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independent….

Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness t….

But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to stop the army, ….

A healer of others, himself diseased..

A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even ….

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education..

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage..

If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, brea….

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature..

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits..

Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them..

He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright..

As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in….

Nature and wisdom never are at strife..

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature..

A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such streng….

A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?".